Andranik Simonian

Shogun is a US-based company and one of Shopify's most advanced visual editors for building high-converting online shopping.

Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript

Environments: React, XState, Esbuild, Storybook, Playwright, GitHub, Jira, Ruby.

Position Activities:

• Designed and developed various innovative features, including Global Snippets for reusable page templates, AI Blog Pages for generating content using AI, Insights for error auditing, and SEO Keywords for displaying, clustering, and evaluating SEO keywords.
• Initiated the introduction of the Material UI library to gain accessibility and adaptiveness, speed up writing code, and provide a better UX for customers.
• Increased speed of loading the application using techniques like code-splitting, optimization of GraphQL queries, compressing images and animations, using service workers, and browser cache, etc.
• Active participant in Frontend Guild meetings, where critical technical decisions, organizational issues, and innovations are discussed and made.

Novartis is an innovative medicines company. In collaboration with Ubisoft and McGill University, built Amblyosight digital technology for the treatment of amblyopia ("lazy eye")

Languages: TypeScript.

Environments: React, Redux, NodeJS, GitLab, Jira, Webpack, Cypress, Storybook.

Position Activities:

• Gained experience in designing all parts of the application using React Hooks.
• Took part in the development and improving the internal UI components library.
• Implement Storybook for UI component library and storybook testing approach (visual and interactive tests)
• Took an active part in and co-organized weekly front-end meetings to discuss new approaches and complex problems.
• Worked on unification, reduction, and optimization of final assemblies using TS and Webpack.
• Searched and optimized the speed of the application using profilers.
• Improved TypeScript and Jenkins skills.

Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript.

Environment: React, Redux, Storybook, Webpack, CodeceptJS, Puppeteer, Jest, GitLab, Jira, Grafana, Graylog.

Position Activities:

• Implement complex and dynamic forms with recovery and pre-filling mechanics, metrics, and analytics collection.
• Design and development of a form-building library for dynamic and interactive forms.
• Bringing mock-ups to life using React and CSS modules.
• Implementation of the highest possible coverage with unit, integration, and end-to-end tests to reduce the release cycle.
• Monitoring of application and infrastructure metrics for quick response to issues.

DocuVisa - DocuVisa is an internal application for a multi-level visa (sighting) of expenditure documents.

Languages: JavaScript.

Environments: Node.js, Firebase, Bitbucket, Jira, Jest.

Position Activities:

• Design and develop the frontend part of the SPA application using React, Redux, and Redux-Sagas technologies.
• Implementation of internationalization using react-intl.
• Writing unit and integration tests.
• Implementation of most PWA recommendations for better user experience.

Languages: JavaScript, Node.js.

Environments: jQuery, Bootstrap 3, Express, MongoDB, Redmine, Opencart.

Position Activities:

• Development of an application to automate the process of item movement between internal warehouses.
• Writing performance, integration, mock, and tests.
• Maintenance and development of a website using OpenCart 1.5.